Future citizens will look back with embarrassment on society’s homophobia. 

Journalists still face threats, attacks, moves to silence their voices, and death throughout Mexico. 

Though their approach worked well “for a while,” according to critics on the center right, things have “started going badly wrong.” 

The country must invest more in education to sustain economic growth. 

Citizens who feel exasperated about the lack of progress made since the “democratic opening” that began in 1985 are considering measures that will only empower the greedy oligarchs. 

New anti-corruption legislation seems to leave possible presidential misconduct off the table. 

It’s no “coincidence” that there are simultaneous judicial offensives against Presidents Dilma Rousseff in Brazil, Michelle Bachelet in Chile, Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela and Cristina Fernández in Argentina. 

Oncologist Tabaré Vázquez Rosas becomes Uruguay’s president for the second time, demonstrating the stable nature of his country’s democratic tradition, and the desire of its citizens for more center-left policies. 

On February 23, 1980 Attorney General Zamora Rivas, a leader of the leftwing of the Christian Democratic party, was assassinated in El Salvador’s dirty war.  His death had symbolic resonance.   

Ecuador’s popular cartoonist, Xavier Bonilla, known as “Bonil,” has once again come in for harassment by the authorities, who don’t like the “tone” of his satire and say that it has “gone beyond the limit imposed by law.”